The document summarizes Matthew Quinn's presentation on "What AI Means For Your Product Strategy And What To Do About It" at Denver Startup Week 2023. The presentation discusses how generative AI could impact product strategies by potentially solving problems companies have ignored or allowing competitors to create new solutions. Quinn advises product teams to evaluate their strategies and roadmaps, ensure they understand user needs, and consider how AI may change the problems being addressed. He provides examples of how AI could influence product development for apps in home organization and solar sales. Quinn concludes by urging attendees not to ignore AI's potential impacts and to have hard conversations about emerging threats and opportunities.

1. With Matthew Quinn
DENVER STARTUP WEEK 2023
What AI Means For Your
Product Strategy And
What To Do About It

2. Thank you for joining us at the twelfth annual Denver Startup Week!
Thank you to our title sponsors Amazon, Capital One Cafe, Dell for Startups, and the Downtown
Denver Partnership.
This session is part of the Product Track, Sponsored By Final Find, one of eight programming
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What AI Means For Your Product Strategy And What
To Do About It

3. PRESENTING SPONSOR
TITLE SPONSORS
TRACK SPONSORS

4. HEADLINE SPONSORS
PARTNER SPONSORS MEMBER SPONSORS
- CBRE
- Colorado Sun
- The Commons on Champa
- DAT Software and Analytics
- Denver Place
- Expansive Workspace
- Halliburton Labs
- Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship
- Molson Coors
- MSU Denver
- Park Central
- Polsinelli
- Caruso
- Credera
- Industrious
- Initial Capacity
- MLJ Insurance
- Doyle Group

5. 1. What lead us to this moment
2. Why you should listen to me
3. What generative AI means for your Product Strategy
4. What to do about it
5. Q&A
Intro

6. Show of hands:
- Who has used an AI tool?
- Who has built or helped build an AI tool?
- Who has used AI to build an AI tool?
- Who is in a product role?
- Anxiety?
WHAT LEAD US TO THIS MOMENT

7. - 9 years in formal product roles
- Lead a product consulting team for Tanzu Labs (formerly
pivotal)
- Launched wealth mgmt software to 35k advisors
- Added +$40m in annual revenue for national retailer
- Helped org ship first new product in 10 years to 4
continents
- Built fitness product with 70% activation (industry <1%)
- Worked on AI products
- 2 startups - Sold 1, 1 died
WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ME

8. - We build incredible software teams by delivering
product together
- Modernizing technology
- Building and launching new products & businesses
- Getting existing teams back on track
- https://tanzu.vmware.com/labs
VMWARE TANZU LABS

9. -AI Anxiety
WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ME

10. - What is product strategy
- What can generative ai do
- What does this mean
WHAT AI MEANS FOR YOUR PRODUCT
STRATEGY

11. -Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap
-Mission: What are we trying to achieve?
-Vision: What does the world look like when we’ve achieved it?
-Strategy: How will we achieve it?
-Goals: How will we measure our progress towards it?
-Roadmap: What do we need to build to get there?
What is product strategy?
“Strategy: How will we achieve it?”

12. - We know it can do what we have made it do
- Mental model - almost perfect, cheap, instantaneous offshore team that
takes language input
What can generative AI do
“Strategy: How will we achieve it?”

13. - Customer may disappear
- The problems you are solving may disappear
- The problems that were so hard you ignore
- Competitors will eat your lunch
What does that mean?
“Strategy: How will we achieve it?”

14. - The problems that were so hard you ignore
What does that mean?
“Strategy: How will we achieve it?”

15. What does that mean?
“Strategy: How will we achieve it?”

16. What does that mean?
“Strategy: How will we achieve it?”

17. What does that mean?
“Strategy: How will we achieve it?”

18. -You need to be honest about the situation
-Evaluate your strategy & roadmaps on 2x2
-Be crystal clear about your users and that they are real
-Be crystal clear about the problems you are solving and evaluate whether
they will go away
-Think about 10x product strategy
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

19. -Problem - people own too much stuff and struggle to organize it
-Product vision:
Become the tool that enables homeowners to be the most organized
and efficient home owners
-Product Strategy:
Create an app that enables homeowners to log, track and store an up to
date record of everything they own
- Roadmap:
- mobile
- bar code scanner
- type in name
- batch process
HYPOTHETICALS - HOME ORGANIZATION APP

20. HYPOTHETICALS - HOME ORGANIZATION APP

21. -Problem - people own too much stuff and struggle to organize it
-Product vision:
Become the tool that enables homeowners to be the most organized
and efficient home owners
-Product Strategy:
A service that creates a catalog of everything you own from a video
- Roadmap:
- Web page with submit
- Checkout
- Logic/Data model
HYPOTHETICALS - HOME ORGANIZATION APP

22. HYPOTHETICALS - HOME ORGANIZATION APP

23. - Problem - buying solar is too complicated/untrustworthy for
homeowners
- Product vision:
Become the tool that enables homeowners to comfortably sign up for
solar on their roof
- Product Strategy:
Create an app that enables homeowners to work out the ROI of putting
solar on their roof
- Roadmap:
- Web app
- enter address
- enter in average bill
- enter credit terms
-
HYPOTHETICALS - SOLAR ENERGY SALES TOOL

24. HYPOTHETICALS - SOLAR ENERGY SALES TOOL

25. - Problem - buying solar is too complicated/untrustworthy for
homeowners
- Product vision:
Become the tool that enables homeowners to comfortably sign up for
solar on their roof
- Product Strategy:
Create a service that works out the ROI of putting solar on the roof
for a homeowner
- Roadmap:
- Web app/Email address
- AI parse the bill
- Logic/data model
HYPOTHETICALS - SOLAR ENERGY SALES TOOL

26. -Fully integrated, tech forward healthcare provider
- Product vision:
Become the highest quality and quickist patient note taking & insurance
billing tool
- Product Strategy:
Create an app that enables doctors to take notes and find billing codes
quicker
- Roadmap:
- Web app
- Single screen context
- Suggested categorization
- Copy and paste from another patient
REAL LIFE EXAMPLE - CARBON HEALTH

27. HYPOTHETICALS - HOME ORGANIZATION APP

28. -Fully integrated, tech forward healthcare provider
- Product vision:
Become the highest quality and quickest patient note taking &
insurance billing tool
- Product Strategy:
Create an app that takes notes and suggests billing codes for doctors
- Roadmap:
- Web app
- Single screen context
- bullet inputs
- Logic/data model
- Note suggestion
REAL LIFE EXAMPLE - CARBON HEALTH

29. PSA - Don’t talk about AI

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35. Better

36. - Don’t sleep on this
- There are existential threats out there
- Put in the work before it is too late
- Be the person that forces the hard conversation
- Look into the light
CONCLUSION

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THANKS - Q&A

38. THANK YOU